Software Engineer 4
Be part of an exciting multi-functional team providing full life-cycle engineering and technical development support to modernize and enhance the operational infrastructure of a specialized customer at Fort Meade, MD. The Software Engineer will lead the design, development, enhancement, and support of software capabilities required by the customer. Work closely with other engineers, technicians, and support staff to ensure that our customer's mission critical needs are met in a creative, efficient, and effective way.
Leads activities to develop, document and maintain architectures, requirements, algorithms, interfaces and designs for software systems. Leads development of code and integration of complex software components into a fully functional software system. Develops software verification plans, test procedures and test environments, executing the test procedures and documenting test results to ensure software system requirements are met. Provides technical leadership for software projects and leads software supplier management activities. Leads development, selection, tailoring and deployment of processes, tools and metrics. Plans, executes and documents software research and development projects. Serves as a subject matter expert for software domains, system-specific issues, processes and regulations. Tracks and evaluates software team and supplier performance to ensure product and process conformance to project plans and industry standards. Works under minimal direction.
Be part of an exciting multi-functional team providing full life-cycle engineering and technical development support to modernize and enhance the operational infrastructure of a specialized customer at Fort Meade, MD. The Software Engineer will lead the design, development, enhancement, and support of software capabilities required by the customer. Work closely with other engineers, technicians, and support staff to ensure that our customer's mission critical needs are met in a creative, efficient, and effective way.
Competencies
General• Cross Functional Partnerships
Analyzes the organization, potential external partners, and own area to identify key relationships that should be initiated or improved to further the attainment of own area's goals. Exchanges information with project leads, internal employees, and external customers to clarify partnership benefits and potential problems; collaboratively determines the scope and expectations of the partnership so that both areas' needs can be met. Collaboratively determines courses of action to realize mutual goals; facilitates agreement on each partner's responsibilities and needed support. Places higher priority on organization's goals than on own area's goals; anticipates effects of own area's actions and decisions on partners; influences others throughout the organization and in partner organizations to support partnership objectives. Implements effective means for monitoring and evaluating the partnership process and the attainment of mutual goals.
• Developing Others
Proactively works with fellow project leads, internal employees, and external customers to identify areas for development, understand need for improvement, and set specific development goals; works with fellow project leads, internal employees, and external customers to identify a variety of options for meeting development goals; explores environmental supports and barriers to development; jointly determines appropriate developmental activities; secures resources required to support development efforts; offers assistance to help fellow project leads, interorganizational employees, and external customers overcome obstacles to learning; gives individuals specific feedback on their performance related to established goals; highlights key positive and negative performance issues; adjusts plans to ensure development.
• Planning And Organizing
Identifies more critical and less critical activities and assignments; adjusts priorities when appropriate. Proactively determines project or assignment requirements by breaking them down into tasks and identifying types of equipment, materials, and people needed. Effectively allocates appropriate amounts of time for completing own work; avoids scheduling conflicts. Is an expert at taking advantage of available resources (individuals, processes, departments, and tools) to complete work efficiently; coordinates with internal and external partners. Uses time effectively and prevents irrelevant issues or distractions from interfering with work completion.
• Work Standards
Consistently establishes expert criteria and/or work procedures to achieve a high level of quality, productivity, or service. Dedicates required time and energy to assignments or tasks to ensure that no aspect of the work is neglected; works to overcome obstacles to completing tasks or assignments. Accepts responsibility for outcomes (positive or negative) of one's work; admits mistakes and refocuses efforts when appropriate. Provides encouragement and support to others in accepting responsibility; does not accept others' denial of responsibility without questioning.
Technical• Engineering Processes
Extensive and specialized knowledge of responsibilities and tasks performed by various Engineering departments/disciplines (e.g., design, test, software, technology, avionics). Extensive and specialized knowledge of the interaction between departments/ disciplines and how their products/processes affect one another and impact non-engineering processes (e.g., Operations, Logistics, Business).
• Engineering Standards
Extensive, specialized knowledge of specification format requirements, guidelines, and change control processes. Understanding of relationship between specifications/standards and aircraft/product certification systems.
• Languages & Databases
Extensive, specialized knowledge of software programming languages and databases and the ability to apply to the software domain. Programming languages encompass higher order languages, auto-coded languages and assembly languages.
• Software Architecture & Design
Extensive, specialized knowledge of software architecture and design methodologies. Ability to synthesize software architectures and designs that meet requirements, characteristics and constraints.
• Software Development Tools
Extensive, specialized knowledge of general and software development and testing tools, capability and usage. Examples include compilers, linkers, debuggers, data analysis tools, graphical user interface builders, post processing tools, requirements management tools, and web authoring tools.
• Software Domain Knowledge
Extensive, specialized knowledge of domains, characteristics, constraints and products that require software and influence architecture, requirements, interfaces, designs, and integration/test approaches. Domain examples include data processing, ground support, tools and analysis models. Examples of characteristics and constraints that impact software include operating systems, fidelity and information processing capacity. Examples of products include aircraft, missiles, airborne/shipboard/space systems/ground-based support systems.
Basic Qualifications For ConsiderationDo you currently have 10 years experience in programming and providing direction for the design and development of application software for complex systems; software testing as well as solving varied software related problems; and generating and reviewing software design for accuracy, completeness and appropriateness in light of objectives, budget and schedule?
Typical Education/Experience
Degree and typical experience in engineering classification: Bachelor's and 9 or more years' experience, Master's with 7 or more years' experience or PhD with 4 or more years' experience. Bachelor, Master or Doctorate of Science degree from an accredited course of study, in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry. ABET is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.
Other Job related information
Ten (10) years experience with programming using the modern software environments listed below. Certifications in at least two (2) of the technologies listed is required. o C/C++, Java/J2EE, Perl, Vscript, VBscript, Python, SQL, COUGAAR, CGI-Perl, Apache Ant, TOMCAT, Hibernate, DHPC, EJB, JAF, Java applets, Java logging, Java IO/NIO, Java patterns, Java runtime proxy interface, Java security, Java XML parsing (DOM, SAX), JDBC, JBOSS, JMS, JMX, JNDI, LDAP, Multi-threaded applications, NTP, ODBC, RMI, SOAP/XML RPC, Servlets & JSPs, SOAP, WSDL, XML, XPath, XSD, XSLT, BEA Weblogic Server/Portal, Commons Logging, Eclipse, JUnit, AJAX, SPARQL, Spring, and Log4j related applications and technologies.
- Business Unit Defense, Space&Security
- Division Networks & Space Systems
- Program Electronic & Mission Systems
- Job Type Non-Management
- Experience Level Career/Experienced
- US Person Status Required? Yes
Closing Date: 04/02/2012
